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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Open Syllable
Standardized test
Quadrigraph
Dyslexia
2. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Anna Gillingham
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
VC
Mastery level
3. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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4. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Reading Comprehension Support
Auditory Processing
Visual Learners
Quadrigraph
5. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Semantics
Multisensory
James Hinshelwood
Phonics approach
6. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Diphthong
Sound Symbol Association
Quadrigraph
V >
7. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Phonemic/ decodable words
James Hinshelwood
Achievement test
Orthography
8. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Percentile
Great Vowel Shift
WIATII
Raw score
9. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Direct Instruction
GORT
Cedilla
10. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Percentile
Reading Comprehension Support
Synthetic Instruction
Fluency
11. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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12. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
The Norman Conquest
Achievement test
Grapheme
Old English
13. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Standardized test
Phonology
Towre
RTI
14. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Cognition
Pre-English
Samuel T. Orton
Vowel Digraph
15. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Chall's Stage 4
ALTA
VAKT
Syntax
16. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Mastery level
WRAT
Sight Words
Letter naming Chart
17. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Six basic types of syllables
Chall's Stage 0
James Hinshelwood
Auditory Processing
18. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Auditory Processing
Age equivalent
Middle English
Prefix
19. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
SBOE
Chall's Stage 2
Accommodation
Profile
20. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Digraph
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Percentile
Diphthong
21. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Macron
Universal Screening
Progress Monitoring
22. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
IDEA
Auditory Processing
Towre
Old English
23. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Texas Education Code 28.06
Modification
24. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Standard score
Age equivalent
Prefix
Matthew Effect
25. English as a second language
Standard Scores
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
ESL
Modification
26. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Syllable
Samuel T. Orton
Greek layer of language
Derivative
27. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Old English
Rate
Battery
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
28. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
SBOE
Composite Score
Mathew Effect
The Norman Conquest
29. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Derived Score
Phoneme
Funding
30. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Joe Torgesen
Greek layer of language
Attention
31. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Fluency
Combination
Progress Monitoring
Analytic
32. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Multi-Sensory Approach
IDEA
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Vowel
33. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Adolf Kusmaul
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
34. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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35. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Mastery level
Matthew Effect
Grade equivalents
36. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Battery
Standardized test
Great Vowel Shift
Modification
37. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Joe Torgesen
Trigraph
Progress Monitoring
Derived Score
38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Diphthong
MSL
The Norman Conquest
39. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Kinesthetic
Texas Education Code 38.003
Consonant
Macron
40. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Macron
ESL
Top-down Reading Approach
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
41. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Tactile
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Percentile
Vowel
42. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Achievement test
Multisensory
ALTA
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
43. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Multi-Sensory Approach
Joe Torgesen
Trigraph
Raw score
44. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Suffix
Breve
Top-down Reading Approach
Criterion referenced tests
45. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Criterion-Referenced Test
Academic Achievement Tests
James Hinshelwood
Visual Learners
46. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Auditory Processing
Phonology
IMSLEC
Syntax
47. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Chall's Stage 4
Sight Words
Whole Language
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
48. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Modification
Suffix
Simultaneous teaching
49. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Latin layer of language
Cognition
Raw score
50. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Receptive language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Syllable
WIATII
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